Fifteen years ago on a quiet January morning, I started this blog. During those fifteen years, I’ve made many wonderful reading friends. I’ve been inspired by all of you, dear friends, as I’ve shared with you my own love of reading. The book blogging community is warm and supportive, and my life is greatly enriched by my interactions with all of you. So today I celebrate fifteen years full of great reading and great friends. Cheers!
My 2007 reading spot and my blogging spot in the background…
Even though I read a lot more on my Kindle these days, this is still so true for me! For you, too?
If truth be told…
On March 7, 2017, I joined The Classics Club and made a commitment to read 50 books in 5 years. I just posted my 50th review and completed this challenge!
I loved the reading I did for this challenge, and because I enjoyed it so much, and because there are endless classics to read, I’ll be signing up in the next few days for another 50 books in 5 years! Watch for my post: Classics Club-Round 2!
You can click here to see my Classics Club-Round 1, with the list of the books I read and the links to my reviews.
“Figure in Backlight”, by Pietro Scoppetta, Italian 1863-1920
Illustration by Kim Ji-Hyuk…
The Introvert ~painting by Cynthia Decker
“Sweet Solitude” (1919), by Edmund Blair Leighton
An enjoyable and successful morning of reading for Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-a-thon! Taking a break now for lunch and a couple of errands, and then back to my reading of books with GARDEN AT THE HEART!
Reading in the Garden, by Richard Edward Miller
…painting by Sylvie Vanderberghe
It’s been an awfully busy week…so this afternoon is just for reading! No appointments, meetings, or interruptions. Just reading…
Reading Woman with Parasol, painting by Henri Matisse
I’m posting this detail from a painting by John William Waterhouse just because I found it so beautiful.
Detail from “Saint Cecilia,” painted in 1895.
I have sometimes dreamt that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards — their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble — the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when He sees us coming with our books under our arms, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.”
Today we celebrate Virginia Woolf who was born on this day in 1882.
A Fondness For Reading 